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Signups are now live for the Daytona USA SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online NetLink/Xband Tournament at the #online_tournaments chat on the SHIRO! Discord. We will continue doing three separate eight-player brackets…
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Back in June of 2001, with the popularity of the Magic: The Gathering property exploding the ’90s and continuing its domination in the 2000s despite the rise of other games…
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Sonic, the brilliant tactician. In honor of Sonic’s 35th Anniversary, the SegaXtreme Games of the Month for June and July 2026 are the Sonic Storybook series. At the conclusion of…
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Culdcept the First, a modern worldwide re-release of Japan-exclusive Saturn game Culdcept, launched today on PC via Steam. The game’s full price is US$29.99, although there’s a 10% launch discount…
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Dragon Ball Z: The Legend punched Japanese Saturns in mid-1996, followed by a limited European kick in December of the same year… and by limited, we mean France, Spain, and…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Battle Athletes – Sega Saturn Memories Vol. III: To Trade or Not to Trade…
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A series of updates have come to Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro over the last two weeks to bring its performance closer to real hardware on both Android devices and Windows….
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If you examine the game data for the Saturn version of Sega Touring Car Championship, the arcade racing game from AM Annex, you’ll find some interesting strings: 0603e598: SEGARALLY_0 0603e5a4:…
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What began three months ago at the start of May, the ninth SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online Tournament, Puyo Puyo Sun For Sega Networks, ended earlier this week with TheNotoriousVPD taking…
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A not-so-surprise Saturn launch, Western boxarts for unreleased Capcom games and a look into Bernie Stolar’s 1998 console strategy — these are just a few of the interesting tidbits that…
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An all-new look at the early years of E3 is being shown to the world courtesy of the Video Game History Foundation. This includes several new media kits, promotional material…
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When the world was young and all things were new, at the dawn of industrial age, there lived a boy named Justin. Brimming with exuberance and a zeal to explore,…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Batman Forever: The Arcade Game – Daisuki, Death Crimson Receive Quality-of-Life Patches – Lunar…
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This is a continuation of a series whose previous entry was in February this year — you can read that here — and whose first entry was in 2024 — you…
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The Battle Athletes franchise has produced multiple anime series, a manga, and three video games. This article is about the 1996 Saturn game from publisher Increment P. The game is…
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This week saw the release of version 0.2.4 of the Saturn TON Editor by developer Frogbull. The most recent updates have included UI improvements, tooltips and some user-requested features by…
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Hot on the heels of 1997’s Grandia, the remake of the 1994 SEGA CD / Mega CD hit Lunar 2: Eternal Blue launched on the Saturn in 1998. Set a…
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Two new quality-of-life patches by romhacker privateye dropped on SegaXtreme earlier this month, this time for Daisuki and Death Crimson. Released patches for Death Crimson and Daisuki on Saturn that:…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Lunar: Silver Star Story #BestOfSaturn – SegaXtreme Showcase Produces Digital Magazine, Announces Contest Winners – SegaXtreme Showcase…
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In this edition, we’re looking at the Saturn version of Batman Forever: The Arcade Game. This was a console port of Acclaim’s and Iguana’s 1996 ST-V arcade title. Some cheat…
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Earlier this week, SEGARPGFAN revealed his latest Saturn online project in development, a ghost car portal website for Sega Touring Car Championship! This site connects directly to SEGA Saturn’s Netlink…
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Judging is over for the contest portion of the SegaXtreme Showcase, and so is the mystery surrounding its secret translation patch entry — it’s Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, as revealed…
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The SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Showcase reached its climax last night with the release of a digital magazine highlighting all 31 entries paired with announcing the contest winners. Showcase organizer Emerald…
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Over the next three weeks, we will be taking a look at GameArts’ triumvirate of their biggest Saturn titles, kicking things off with Lunar: Silver Star Story! A remake of…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Alone in the Dark 2 – Shadows of Peakwater Rolls a D20 in SegaXtreme…
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An unprecedented entry was submitted to the SegaXtreme Showcase this year: Coup, a homebrew game that not only features six-player simultaneous online play but also crossplay with a Web version….
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In this edition, we’re covering the Saturn version of Command & Conquer. This 1996 port of the influential PC game has some secrets hiding in its game data: A couple…
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This week, we’ve gotten a few pieces of news that are notable to Saturn fans, from an infamous dating sim is getting a remake, to a patch enabling a hidden…
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A 17-year-old named Angie Hart is found dead at the foot of the planetarium in Chicago, and it’s up to detective J.B. Harold — YOU — to solve this murder…
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Watch the trailer for this month’s community challenge: This July we’re bringing the arcade home with the seventh volume of the Saturn’s SEGA AGES games, Memorial Selection Vol. 1! That’s…
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A small but promising homebrew game was submitted to the SegaXtreme Showcase last month: Fists of Ouchie, a 2D versus fighting game. It somewhat resembles Super Smash Bros. — its…
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An in-progress isometric RPG was submitted to the SegaXtreme Showcase last month called Shadows of Peakwater. It’s a 2D turn-based game being developed by 500zorkmids, who said they were inspired…
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In this edition: The cheat sites list a bogus “Debug menu” code for Alone in the Dark 2. I went looking for the real code in the game data —…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Fire Pro Gaiden: Blazing Tornado – Port of ‘Noiz2sa’ Submitted to SegaXtreme Saturn Showcase…
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One of the very first Saturn titles to receive a fan translation, Revolutionary Girl Utena: Story of the Someday Revolution is a polished visual novel based on the excellent anime…